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Friday, December 14, 2007

Does Dendreons cancer drug Provenge really work? After hundreds of millions of dollars spent on research and careful analysis from the MDs and PhDs of the medical science community, it's now up to the United States Congress to analyze the analyzers.

"two members of the FDA's advisory committee who opposed the drug's approval -- Howard Scher of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Maha Hussain of the University of Michigan -- had conflicts of interest."There is reason to believe that serious ethics rules were violated by two FDA advisory panel members in their decision, and that these violations played a role in the subsequent FDA decision to not approve Provenge at this time," said the letter, signed by Reps. Mike Michaud, D-Maine; Dan Burton, R-Ind.; and Tim Ryan, D-Ohio.The congressmen said Scher was a lead investigator for a competing cancer drug..."

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My biotech career is merely a dream. In this dream we are all living on an Island where our ancestors once watched the westerners develop drugs that helped their people fight off disease and suffering. The westerners left and we are now donning their white lab coats and trying to create the drugs ourselves. We have their books, labs, beakers and a handful of drug targets they left behind. But nothing is working.